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Wireless carriers will adopt a new real-time text protocol by December 2017
The FCC is ready to adopt a proposal that'll bring a new protocol to wireless networks to help people with disabilities communicate. It's called real-time text (RTT) and will be a replacement for the aging teletypwriter (TTY) devices that let users transmit text conversations over traditional phone lines. The new RTT protocol will work over cellular networks and other "IP-based environments." According to the FCC's statment, RTT will ""allow Americans who are deaf, hard of hearing, speech disabled or deaf-blind to use the same wireless communications devices as their friends, relatives and colleagues, and more seamlessly integrate into tomorrow's communications networks."
